Typographical composing-machine.



H. DEGENER.

I TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEELS, 1913.

1,084,795. v Patented Jan.20,1914.

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HEINRICH DEG'ENER, OF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 3, 1913.

Patented Jan. 20, 1914.

Serial No. 745,917.

f0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEINRICH DuGuNi-m, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at 26 Hellmannstrasse, Berlin, in the German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in 'lypographical ComposingWlachines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to typographical composing machines of the class in which the devices to be composed are provided with a plurality of faces and are assembled in the order of composition in an assembler at different levels according to the particular face to be produced on the finished article resulting from the use of the said assembled devices.

The invention is particularly appli able to typographical line-casting machines such as those known commercially under the trade mark Linotype in which the abovenamed devices take the form of matrices having a plurality of formative cavities, and the above-named finished article is a cast bar bearing on one edge a line of type.

For convenience, the invention is herein described only in connection with a justnamed line-casting machine but it is to be understood that it can equally well be applied to other typographical machines whether they employ matrices or type dies and whether or not the resultant product of such machines be a cast type bar; for that reason the term matrix or matrices herein employed, is to be understood as including such other device or devices, for example, type dies, as would, in a typographical machine, be assembled in a manner corresponding to that appertaining to the said matrices, and the term cast type bar as herein employed, is to be understood as meaning the product of the machine however produced from the said so-called matrices.

The invention relates particularly to the before-mentioned assembler, and has for its object to construct the said assembler so as to facilitate the moving of the matrices manually from one to another level therein. Hitherto difficulty has been experienced in effecting these changes of position especially in connection with matrices provided with more than two faces, this, for the reason that the front ledges which support the matrices in their upper positions, prevented the said matrices from being canted forward sufficiently to allow their lower front lugs to clear the ledge immediately overlying them.

Means already proposed for overcoming the above-named dilliculty involved the recessing of the front edges of the matrices; this has been described in the specification of application for Letters Patent, Serial Number 583,050, filed on September 21st of 1910, and the present invention provides other n'ieans for attaining the same result.

Although the invention is applicable for use in connection with matrices having two faces, it is not generally needed in such a connection because the difliculty above referred to is not found to exist with matrices having a less number of faces than three; for that reason the matrices having three faces hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, are to be regarded merely as a convenient example.

In the said drawings Figure 1 is a front 010 ation and Fig. 2 is a plan, both partly broken away, of suflicient of an assembler to illustrate the present invention, and Fig. 3 is a transverse verti :al section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, with the assembler gate open.

1, is the assembler having on its back wall 1 and front wall 1", the usual ledges 2, 2 respectively, which serve to support the matrices at the normal level, such a matrix, identified by the reference numeral 3, is represented as supported at that level, in dotted lines in Fig. 3.

4t, 5 and 6 are the three formative cavities in the matrix 8 each of a different face, t being one of the normal font and 5 and 6 being two of respectively different variant fonts.

7 and 8 are two ledges above the ledge 2, which serve to support the matrices at the higher levels as when the resultant cast type bars have to bear characters of the variant faces presented by the respective formative cavities 5 and 6.

9 is the gate pivoted as ordinarily to the front wall l of the assembler 1.

10 is a recess formed in the front of the back wall 1 of the assembler, for accommodating, with a capacity for sliding horizontally therein, a series of vertical plates 11, guided at their upper parts by screws 12 fast in those plates and sliding in holes formed in the wall 1.

The lodge 2 is rigidly attached to the wall 1 by screws 13 on which are provided tubular distance pieces or sleeves 1 which serve as the guides for the lower parts of the plates 11, these latter being perforated near their lower corners to enable them to slide along the said sleeves.

he screws 12 and sleeves 14: are encircled each by a helical compression spring 15 which springs normally hold the plates 11 in their foremost position in which their front surfaces are flush with the corresponding surface of the wall 1*, the heads of the screws 12, and the back of the ledge 2 serving to prevent the said plates moving beyond that position in a forward direction.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that the plates 11 constitute a resilient wall, which is capable of moving rearwardly, against the action of the springs 15, when pressure is applied to the front side thereof; this is what happens when a matrix 3, by being turned about the ledge 8 as a fulcrum, is tilted forward in the manner indicated in full lines in Fig. 3, the rear lower lug 16 of that matrix then pressing the respective plate 11 rearward and the front lower lug 17 being moved rearward clear of the ledge 7 or 8 so that the said matrix is then free to be raised or lowered from one level to another accordingto the particular face 41-, 5 or 6 to be cast from.

It is to be understood that the resilient wall instead of being constituted by a number of separately operable plates as in the example illustrated in the drawings, may be formed in'one piece only, but the arrangement shown is that which is preferred and found most convenient.

Having described my invention, I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a typographical machine, an assembler wherein the matrices are composed in line, provided with means for supporting the matrices and having one of its walls yieldingly arranged, so that the matrices may be tilted edgewise therein to permit their disengagement from the supporting means.

2. In a typographical machine, an assembler wherein the matrices are composed in line, provided with means for supporting the matrices and having one of its walls formed in a plurality of independently yieldable sections, to permit edgewise tilting of the matrices therein and their disengagement from the supporting means.

3. In a typographical machine, an assembler wherein the matrices are composed in line, provided with means for supporting the matrices, and having one of its walls arranged to move toward and from the matrices, so that they may be tilted edgewise therein to permit their disengagement from the supporting means, and springs for holding the wall resiliently in normal position.

4. In a typographical machine, the combination with the assembler, of a plurality of independently movable parts constituting a rear wall of the said assembler to permit the edgewise tilting and endwise movement of the matrices therein, and springs acting on those parts to resiliently hold them in normal position.

5. In a typographical machine, an assembler wherein the matrices are composed in line, provided wit-h a plurality of superposed ledges for supporting the matrices at different levels and having one of its walls yieldingly arranged, so that the matrices may be tilted edgewise therein to permit their movement from one ledge to another.

6. In a typographical machine, an assembler wherein the matrices are composed in line, provided on its front wall with a plurality of superposed ledges for supporting the matrices at different levels therein and having its rear wall movably arranged so that the matrices may be tilted edgewise therein, to permit their movement from one ledge to another, and springs for holding the rear wall resiliently in normal position.

7. In atypographical machine, the combination with the assembler, of a plurality of superposed ledges on the front wall thereof adapted to supportmatrices at respectively different levels, a rear wall constituted by a plurality of independently movable plates, and springs acting on the said plates to move them independently of each other.

8. In a typographical machine, the combination with the assembler, of a plurality of superposed ledges on the front wall there of adapted to support matrices at respectively different levels, a recessed rear wall, a spring-controlled member movable in the recess, and guides for the said member allowing it to move only in horizontal direction.

9. In a typographical machine, the combination with the assembler. of a plurality of superposed ledges on the front wall thereof adapted to support matrices at respectively different levels. a recessed rear wall, a plurality of spring-controlled members arranged edge to edge and independently movable in the recess, and guides for each such member allowing it to move only in horiserving to guide the lower rear lugs of the matrices, and guides for each such member allowing it to move only in horizontal direction.

11. In a typographical machine, the combination with the assembler, of a plurality of superposed ledges on the front wall thereof adapted to support matrices at respectively different levels, a rear wall recessed at its lower part, its upper part serving to guide the upper rear lugs of the matrices in the assembler, a plurality of spring'controlled members arranged edge to edge and independently movable in the recess, and

serving to guide the lower rear lugs of the matrices, guides for each such member allowing it to move only in horizontal direction, and a horizontal matrix-supporting ledge fast to the rear wall and extending longitudinally through the assembler at the front of the movable members.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

HEINRICH DEGENER.

Witnesses HENRY HASPER, \VOLDEMAR HAUPT.

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